This is the online journal of Naomi Fontanos, a transgender (TG for short) Filipina (Pinay for short) human rights defender. As a proud advocate of human diversity, equality and dignity, she dreams of a gender-blind world. This blog is her contribution to that dream.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Gender Identity Disorder stays in the DSM V

In spite of a global campaign to depathologize trans identities, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) working group revising the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has decided to retain Gender Identity Disorder (GID) in the fifth edition of the DSM. The APA draft can be found here.

This for me is nothing but a grave abuse of power. I am glad that soon transgender human rights advocacy groups will come together to ensure a worldwide response to the tyranny of the APA.